overrun
overrun is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Overrun. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- past participle. of Overrun
- transitive verb. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
- transitive verb. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
- transitive verb. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
- transitive verb. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- transitive verb. To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
- transitive verb. To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
- intransitive verb. To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
- intransitive verb. To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
- noun. too much production or more than expected
- verb. run beyond or past
"The plane overran the runway"
- verb. seize the position of and defeat
"the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
- verb. invade in great numbers
"the roaches infested our kitchen"
- verb. flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- verb. occupy in large numbers or live on a host
"the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
Synonyms
overproduction, infest, overflow, invade
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in overrun:
Common word forms
overruns, overrunner, overrunning
Words from these letters
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